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March 7, 2025
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2025 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...
February 25, 2025
On January 31st, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty associated with Yale Environmental Humanities gathered for a special tour of the newly renovated Yale...
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February 24, 2025
The New Haven Environmental History Project will host a launch event on Wednesday, March 5, 4:45pm to launch its new website exploring the history of the built and natural...
February 14, 2025
In 2025 YPS will award three distinct types of grants, reflecting a growing and diversifying demand across the university to support novel and impactful projects that are...
February 14, 2025
Imagine a future you are excited to live in, that you can’t wait to get to. If it’s difficult, you’re not alone. Dystopic visions of the future dominate popular culture, but...
January 26, 2025
Elena Adasheva-Klein is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University. Her doctoral research explores human-environment relations and urban infrastructure...
January 26, 2025
Yale Environmental Humanities is pleased to share a five-year report on the activities of our Public Humanities grant program since 2020. With more than sixty grants awarded...
January 8, 2025
On view through June 8, 2025, Photography and the Botanical World at the Yale University Art Gallery bridges the fields of art and science by highlighting photography’s deep-...
December 18, 2024
Paloma Lenz ‘26 is a junior in Pierson College studying environmental engineering with a concentration in architecture. She enjoys working on collaborative research and...
November 12, 2024
The Yale Center for Environmental Justice hosted its sixth annual Global Environmental Justice conference, “Environmental Joy: Roadmaps for Resistance, Resilience, and...
November 6, 2024
In recognition of their pioneering work in fostering inclusivity and equity in the environmental movement, Yale School of the Environment Professors Dorceta Taylor ’85 MFS, ’...
November 1, 2024
On Nov. 4, Yale Peabody Museum, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, will host an experimental opera that imagines Earth after human extinction…   An...
October 19, 2024
Twelve Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fourth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
October 17, 2024
On September 6, 2024, twelve members of Yale Environmental Humanities—graduate students, postdoctoral associates, faculty, and administrators—embarked from Branford,...
October 8, 2024
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.   In this magisterial...
October 1, 2024
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.     On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a...
September 27, 2024
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “...
September 24, 2024
One of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024   A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped...
September 12, 2024
Climate change law and policy have been influenced heavily by economic thinking. This article uses two manifestations of that thinking - the social cost of carbon and carbon...
September 8, 2024
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Friday, September 20th, at HQ 134. 4 p.m.: Opening Remarks and Panel Discussions (with Q&As...